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UbuWeb was founded in response to the marginal distribution of crucial avant-garde material. It remains non-commercial and operates on a gift economy.[2] UbuWeb ensures educational open access to out-of-print works that find a second life through digital art reprint while also representing the work of contemporaries. It addresses problems in the distribution of and access to intellectual materials.

UbuWeb does not distribute commercially viable works but rather resurrects avant-gardesound art, video and textual works through their translation into a digital art web environment - re-contextualising them with current academic commentary and contemporary practice.[3] It houses and distributes freely the entire archive of the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine project.

UbuWeb is not affiliated to any academic institution, instead relying on alliances of interest and benefiting from bandwidth donations from its partnerships with GreyLodge, WFMU, PennSound, The Electronic Poetry Center, The Center for Literary Computing, and ArtMob.